An article
written by Reno Omokri. Please read on. That Lai Mohammed has reduced
himself from minister for information to minister for explaining why
President Muhammadu Buhari does not attend to official duties is now
obvious! Instead of busying himself generating ideas for the betterment
of Nigeria, he is more concerned with generating excuses for Buhari's
failure!
Why has Lai done this to himself? Why has he turned himself into the Southern end of a bull?
And when
CNN's Richard Quest gave him an opportunity to redeem himself by asking
him the leading question 'which country makes the best jollof rice', Lai
Mohammed proved how irredeemable he is by saying, and I quote "I want
to say Senegal". Really! Senegal.
Is Lai Mohammed now the minister of information for Senegal?
And to make
matters worse, Lai tried to spin the storm that came after his
disappointing response by claiming that he misunderstood Mr. Quest's
question.
If Lai can misunderstand such a simple question, then it falls into question his capability for the job he holds.
Perhaps when
you have a jollofless Lai as information minister and French graduate as
agriculture minister, even jollof rice runs away to Senegal! Is this
sycophancy taken too far? This is the same Lai Mohammed that said Fulani
herdsmen come from Mauritius, a country that is in the Indian Ocean and
shares no land border with Africa. The same Lai Mohammed that told us
in January that President Muhammadu Buhari is perfectly healthy. I hear
that even satan is praying for Lai to go to heaven because he fears he
will lose his seat if he comes to hell!
And Lai does
not seem to realize the extent of damage he has done to Nigeria's image.
If I were the Senegalese government, I feature Lai's answer to Richard
Quest question as a publicity advertisement for the Senegalese tourism
industry on CNN and other global media.
It almost
seems that since Muhammadu Buhari became our President it is not only
foreign investors that are divesting from Nigeria. Even jollof rice has
divested to Senegal. In fact, as Jollof rice has divested, we must not
forget that the minister of agriculture had announced plans to import
grass from Brazil so Herdsmen will be comfortable. You see, even grass
had divested from Nigeria to Brazil!
But on second
thoughts, perhaps we owe Lai an apology. He is right after all. Jollof
RICE originates from Senegal. It is jollof LIES that originates from
Nigeria through Lai Mohammed.
In fact, I
want to play a game called Name Your Favorite Jollof LIE that Lai has
cooked. I will start. My favorite is the lie that one masquerade can
create 1000 jobs. What is yours? Send me an email of yours to reno@renoomokri.org or tweet it at me using the hashtag #NameYourFavoriteJollofLIE!
But on a more
serious note, Lai's most recent misadventure should prompt the federal
government to do some introspection because incidences like this are too
commonplace with this administration that one may be forgiven if he
thought we were being governed by people who do not know much about
Nigeria.
For instance
we have a President who told the Telegraph of U.K. that Nigerians are
"criminals", a lying information minister who thinks Nigerian jollof
rice originates from Senegal, a French graduate agriculture minister who
wants to import grass for Fulani Herdsmen while Nigerians have no food,
a minister of finance that wants to tax Nigerians who own homes in
London, a minister of internal affairs who thinks the job of uniformed
military officers is to shine his shoe in public, a pot bellied minister
of transport whose only major achievement is commissioning what the
previous administration built, and a Science and Technology minister
whose publicly stated ambition is to produce pencils in two years time-in fact maybe the whole government should just go to Senegal along with our jollof rice!
And God keeps
giving Lai Mohammed opportunities to redeem himself and his government
and he keeps failing to live up to his title as chief image maker for
the government.
48 hours
after Anthony Joshua TKO'ed Wladimir Klitschko to become the undisputed
heavy weight champion of the world on April 29, 2017, the Nigerian
government had not congratulated him. It was not until Senator Ben
Murray-Bruce tweeted about it that he congratulated the champion
pugilist. I hope Lai does not think Anthony is from SENEGAL!! You never
know with this Buhari administration!
And this
dereliction of duty from Lai Mohammed is more telling when you consider
that Nigerians do not really know what is happening with their
government.
Whether true
or false, we hear about a cabal governing. Executive Council of the
Federation meetings either do not hold or where they hold little to
nothing is done because the President is not there.
It is either
Lai tells us that the President is resting on doctors orders or that he
is working from home. Being that the President's office is 5 minutes
from his home (I have walked it myself) one begins to wonder what Lai
Meshe when he says that President Muhammadu Buhari worked from home.
And Lai's
comments betrays the disconnect in this government. Lai tells us that
the President needs to rest on doctors orders, yet the minister of
transport, Rotimi Amaechi, only this week said the President was fit
enough to govern and re contest in 2019.
Speaking as a guest on Channel Television's Hard Copy, Mr. Amaechi's exact words were:
"The
president is fit enough to govern and if he makes the decision to run
again, if he does, I don't think there is anything wrong in supporting
him."
So who should we believe between Amaechi and Lai?
And then the minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, joined the fray by saying:
"We
would urge him to seek re-election because it is only once in a while
that you get a father figure for a nation to move forward and attain
greatness. He is unlike former President Goodluck Jonathan, who never,
with due respect, symbolised anything for the country."
Barrister
Adebayo Shittu says Muhammadu Buhari is like a father to Nigerians and
Goodluck Jonathan was not. How sad that we forget history so soon!
Between 'the dog and baboon will be soaked in blood' and 'my ambition is
not worth the blood of any Nigerian', who sounds like a father?
Instead of
Buhari's minister to pray for his health they are prodding him on to
seek reelection in 2019. Learn from Abacha and Yar'adua. Do not tempt
God! I just thank God that there are men who fear God like Chief Bisi
Akande in the APC. While Amaechi, Kachikwu, Shittu and Oyegun are
playing God, Akande this week released a statement that he "wept"
because of the state of Buhari's health.
What did Jesus say in Mark 8:36?
"what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul?" The enemies of Buhari are those who are encouraging him
to cling to power instead of clinging to his health!
If I were
President Muhammadu Buhari, I will sack Amaechi and Shittu for
pressuring me over 2019 at a time I should focus on my health. Except
the aim is to kill me. It is taken that every sane man intends the
reasonable consequence of his actions. What is the reasonable
consequence of pressuring a man who is too sick to work full time or
attend mosque to start contemplating the rigors of a re-election
campaign? The reasonable consequence will befall Buhari's enemies, not
Buhari. Amaechi, Shittu and Oyegun are Buhari's biggest enemies!
In all these,
what I find alarming is the silence of both Tunde Bakare and Father
Mbaka. Pastor Tunde Bakare and Reverend Father Ejike mbaka, who knew you
guys could be so silent. You used to be so talkative!!! Sometimes it
seems as if God made Muhammadu Buhari to be President purposely to
expose the hypocrisy of some people.
These guys were so narky under the previous administration but now it seems the cat has got their tongue. What a pity.
But there is a
silver lining. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is a man who has won my
heart for his conduct and carriage in office. President Buhari could not
have made a better choice!
Just take in
the comment he made while addressing "The Platform" at Covenant
Christian Centre in Lagos. On May Day 2017, Professor Osinbajo said "and
by the way, we all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best!". And in
just one sentence, Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo exposed Lai
Mohammed for the liar he is.
This is why I
even though I pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, I am quite satisfied
that Nigeria is safe in the hands of Osinbajo. Osinbajo understands
what it is to lead a nation. After Lai embarrassed Nigeria over jollof
rice, President Buhari kept mute, but Osinbajo has redeemed Nigeria's
image. God bless Professor Yemi Osinbajo!
Reno's Nuggets
Noah built the Ark when it was sunny. You cant prepare for adversity during adversity.
You prepare for it during prosperity. While you are building your ark,
haters will laugh at you. Don't waste anger on haters. When they annoy
you, use the anger as energy to achieve more. It will annoy them more
than your anger. And always remember that the world won't understand you
if you try to explain yourself with words. Your only explanation they
will understand is your success #RenosNuggets
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